Without pause in the final stretch of the season, the Barça and the Fraikin BM Granollers They will star this Wednesday at the Palau (6.30pm / Gol TV and direct on the MD website) in the Catalan derby on matchday 32, postponed once due to the coronavirus.
The Barça team, leader of the Liga Sacyr ASOBAL With 64 points, he already celebrated his 11th consecutive title weeks ago, but he will try to sign the Perfect League with a full 34 wins and 68 points, for which he needs to beat Granollers this afternoon and Saturday at Cangas.
Then it will be the turn of the ASOBAL Cup on Santander (June 5-6), where the Catalans will meet in the semifinals at Bada Huesca and, if he meets the predictions, he will play the final against the winner of Liberbank Cantabria-Bidasoa Irún.
All these parties will serve to the Barça to prepare his assault to the Cologne Final Four (January 12-13), where he will try to win his ‘Tenth’ Champions, the great challenge of each year, after an immaculate season in Europe. Barça-Nantes Y PSG-Aalborg will be the semifinals, as determined by the draw held this Tuesday.
Granollers are still in the fight for the runner-up thanks to nine consecutive wins that have placed them in 4th place with 45 points from 30 games. The Bidasoa Irun (51) and Bada Huesca (47) occupy the 2nd and 3rd positions, both with three more games than Granollers, hence the fight for second place remains open.
“Barça have won the League, but they need to continue to show that they are a team that cannot lose any game. That still makes him very difficult to beat. The number one objective is to get out alive, obviously, playing the game. If things work out to be able to play the match, we will do whatever it takes to win ”, said the Granollers coach. Antonio Rama.
Barça and Granollers will meet for the fourth time this season after three previous Barça victories in the Super Cup of Catalonia (32-25), in the first round of the League (27-41) and the semifinals of the Copa del Rey (32-22). Historic was the last Vallesano triumph against Barça (28-29), achieved at the Palau on April 13, 2018.
It will be the last Catalan derby for various members of Barça because the departure at the end of the season of coach Xavi Pascual, Cédric Sorhaindo, Kevin Möller, Aron Palmarsson, Jure Dolenec and Raúl Entrerríos, who is retiring, has already been confirmed.
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